lebenslang
[ˈleːbn̩sˌlaŋ]
The verdict
“lebenslang” has 16 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #17,972. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,972
- frequency rank, German
- 2,640
- “L” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - für die gesamte (restliche) Lebensdauer; für die Dauer eines ganzen Lebens
Corpus desk
Index DE-lebenslang · lebenslang · German
lebenslang · rank #17,972 · 16 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,972
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,640
- PHOTO-FINISH Laptops
Nearest frequency peer: Laptops (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „lebenslang“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- kriminell
kriminell
82,034 corpus weight
- Kundin
Kundin
82,033 corpus weight
- Lagerfeuer
Lagerfeuer
82,031 corpus weight
- Laptops
Laptops
82,030 corpus weight
- lebenslang
lebenslang
82,029 corpus weight
- Luftangriffe
Luftangriffe
82,026 corpus weight
What this shows „lebenslang“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lebenslang |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈleːbn̩sˌlaŋ] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #17,972 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „lebenslang“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around lebenslang (IPA [ˈleːbn̩sˌlaŋ]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #17,972 among 2,640 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "für die gesamte (restliche) Lebensdauer; für die Dauer eines ganzen Lebens".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for lebenslang, with forms such as "elbenslang", "lbeenslang", and "lebbenslang". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "Lebenslauf", "lebenslange", "lebenslangen", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is lebenslang, spelled L-E-B-E-N-S-L-A-N-G.
Definition
- 1für die gesamte (restliche) Lebensdauer; für die Dauer eines ganzen Lebens
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lebenslang appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Der Augsburger Polizistenmörder ist zu einer lebenslangen Haftstrafe verurteilt worden.“
"Ich glaube, vielen der Wähler, die diese Gesetze unterstützt und vielen der Politiker, die sie verabschiedet haben, war gar nicht klar, dass da Menschen lebenslang hinter Gittern verschwinden würden, weil sie eine Jacke geklaut haben", so Turner. Woche für Woche würden solche Urteile gefällt.
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- elbenslang
- lbeenslang
- lebbenslang
- lebenlsang
- lebennslang
- lebensalng
- lebenslagn
- lebenslangg
- lebenslanng
- lebensllang
- lebenslnag
- lebensslang
- lebesnlang
- lebneslang
- leebnslang
- llebenslang
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of lebenslang - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).